# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-finley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:26:43.783Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-finley"
name: "Joe Finley"
slug: "joe-finley"
description: "Joseph Scott Finley is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He played twenty-one games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Buffalo Sabres and New York Islanders between 2011 and 2013. The rest of his career, which lasted from 2009 to 2018, was spent in the minor leagues and ended with three seasons with HIFK in the Finnish Liiga. Finley was selected by the Washington Capitals 27th overall in the 2005 NHL entry draft."
tagline: "American ice hockey defenceman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Finley_Iowa_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1987-06-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.139453333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Finley"
    title: "Joe Finley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "جو فينلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "جو فينلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Finley"
    title: "Joe Finley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Finley"
    title: "Joe Finley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Finley"
    title: "Joe Finley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Finley"
    title: "Joe Finley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3180062"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump